To me at least it is believable. Certainly more believable then if hr had quickly gotten out. The evidence was against him, and so for him to get out right away just really would have been contrary to how slowly the wheels of justice turn It's annoying but hopefully it will be changed soon.

Of course I already knew that J B F wanted to leave the show. As Julian Fellows has said elsewhere about a different subject- When young people want to leave the show, there's not a whole lot of ways that you can show them leaving if they are an important member of the family other than dying. Sybil's death in childbirth or shortly after was not uncommon in those days and so it was also unbelievable. Permanent address: Into the West